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Scents and Noses -
A friend came round this afternoon to smell the first roses. Most of the roses in bloom now are Gallicas, Damasks, Rugosas--the real OGRs w...
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Forgotten Oldies -
I've been reading "A Small House and Large Garden" by Richardson Wright, 1924, a book I picked up at a garage sale. Wright was an ...
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Rugosa death -
I decided to salvage what I could of my apparently dying rugosas, species Alba & Rubra (see previous post). I dug in to collect and tran...
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Rugosa death -
My oldest rugosas are dying. It started 3 years ago with Will Alderman. He was huge, one of the first to bloom, bloomed almost all summer. T...
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Name Themes -
Anyone else collect roses by the themes of their names? For instance, I have all of Lens' musician HMs, Mozart, Sibelius, Verdi, etc, plus A...
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Train track -
And here's the train track garden, looking down over the fence on the street above.
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Malmaison -
Here's the entry to Malmaison. Glorious beds
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